Previous Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Winners

1976 Parthian Shot by Loyd Little (Viking)

1977 Speedboat by Renata Adler (Random House)

1978 A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien (Norton)

1979 Hasen by Reuben Bercovitch (Knopf)

1980 Mom Kills Kids and Self by Alan Saperstein (FSG)

1981 Household Words by Joan Silber

1982 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (FSG)

1983 Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row)

1984 During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase (Harper & Row)

1985 Dreams of Sleep by Josephine Humphreys (Viking)

1986 Lady’s Time by Alan V. Hewat (Harper & Row)

1987 Tongues of Flame by Mary Ward Brown (Seymour Lawrence/Dutton)

1988 Imagining Argentina by Lawerence Thornton (Doubleday)

1989 The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (Ticknor & Fields)

1990 The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard (FSG)

1991 Maps to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper (University of Georgia)

1992 Wartime Lies by Louis Begley (Knopf)

1993 Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones (Morrow)

1994 The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb (University of New Mexico)

1995 The Grass Dancer by Susan Power (Putnam)

1996 Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)

1997 Ocean of Words by Ha Jin (Zoland)

1998 A Private State by Charlotte Bacon (University of Massachusetts)

1999 Homestead by Rosina Lipini (Delphinium)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin)

2001 An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma (FSG)

2002 Mary and O’Neil by Justin Cronin (Dial)

2003 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W by George Brownstein (Norton)

2004 Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh (Morrow)

2005 Graceland by Chris Abani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2006 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li (Random House)

2007 Brief Encounters With Che Guevara by Ben Fountain (HarperCollins)

2008 Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown)

2009 A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie (Norton)